Vraan, Executioner Thane
The classic aristocrat drainers pay you per body, and that per-death scaling is what turns a free sacrifice loop into a lethal burst: run enough deaths through the outlet in one turn and the drain climbs with them. This Vampire refuses that math. However many creatures die at once, the effect resolves for a flat 2 life lost and 2 gained, and only for the first cluster of deaths each turn. What it gives up in combo ceiling it recovers as a floor, since the drain rides a 2/2 attacker that threatens damage every combat rather than sitting idle as engine glue. That trade reshapes the deck around it: instead of assembling a burst, you want a board that leaks a body every turn, a steady token drip, an edict standoff you can outlast. Compressing "each opponent loses 2, you gain 2" into a single once-per-turn trigger also quietly defuses the multiplayer runaway that per-death drains create against a full table, where three opponents bleeding on every death compounds into a kill nobody agreed to enable. This is aristocrat payoff redesigned for attrition rather than explosion: deliberately incapable of the single-turn combo finish, and built to earn its keep by sticking around and grinding, not by feeding the loop that ends the game.
